Coming: 2010
From IGN's Interview: "Reggie Fils-Aime on the Record"
IGN: You have a bit more insight on the development of Galaxy 2. What's the direction for the game? Do they really want to blow it out or will it be more of the same?
Reggie: What Mr. Miyamoto has shared is that if the first Galaxy was maybe more inviting in terms of all the audiences, what Galaxy 2 is going to be is maybe a little more Nintendo fan / harder gamer focused. A little tougher. The use of Yoshi makes it a little more challenging. We showed some of the snippets of some of the activities -- it's a bit more challenging. It's going to be, if you will, for more of that passionate Mario fan who grew up getting challenged with Super Mario World. It's going to be much more in that area.
From "Shigeru Miyamoto Roundtable LiveBlog"
"With Super Mario Galaxy, it's the first time we really worked with spherical worlds and we had a lot of ideas about how to use gravity. However, when we finished the game, we realized there were a ton of ideas we just couldn't fit in," he says.
More than 90 percent of what you will see in Super Mario Galaxy 2 is all brand new. Maybe even 95 percent . . . Galaxy 2 contains roughly the same amount of content as the original.
Galaxy 2 is very, very far along, but since Nintendo has New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it's going to hold off and keep Galaxy 2 for next year. :(
Damnit, a wall of black that I can't read for a few weeks.
But what happens when you... and it... I was like YES! Even though... I found it to be... Can't wait to unlock...
.....Sonic?
PLEASE GOD NO
What the game has a ending?!
9.7!
And still no sign of Sonic!
9.6!
Wait, I scored RE5 a 9.6, can't have that now
9.5!
I just want to say its totally worth it to see this game through to the end. I made it there but...
IT'S HARD AS HELL. I love it.
(very vague spoiler but just in case I will cover it up)
After you get 240 stars you unlock a level called the grandmaster level. It is a level that is made to test your skills to the limit. The first star takes you through the stage normally, its pretty long with all sorts of varied sections. I got through it rather easily after a few tries. Then there is the comet version of it that only unlocks after you put 9999 star bits in the bank, annoying. I finally did that and got the final comet star called The Perfect Run. No life, no checkpoints, just a straight up daredevil run of the grandmaster level and they make it harder than it was before. This is BRUTAL, I tried for almost hour and barely got past the midpoint. The game finally has given me a crazy challenge. I wanted more of this, ok well not to this extreme but levels as challenging as this grandmaster one is.
AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!
Finished it?
I think someone just forced him to buy a 3rd party wii game.